I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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I love tranquil solitude.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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